With ati providing the graphics chip for the xbox 2 does anyone think there will be all in wonder features in the xbox 2 ? Perhaps sell it as a tivo and a game system. Or even include a dvd burner (They are cheap now a dual format 4x writer is as cheap as 80$ retail ) To give it more apeal as the xbox and ps2 did with the dvd playback features of those systems ?
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jvd said:
They would be interesting features to have and could boost sales, but I'd bet on them trying to make the system as cheap as possible rather than adding lots of unneccessary features. Having said that, it could be a good way for Microsoft to try and get into peoples living rooms.
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They certainly COULD put it in, but they'll both lose more cash to make it a passable machine in that respect (bigger hard drive, DVD burner, or both...) and they'll be wholly undercutting their Media Center PC endeavor if they made it quick and easy for the Xbox.
More likely I could see them working up a software solution to easily link an Xbox to a PC and offer the same kind of features through the network port. It would still be advanced features they could market, wouldn't incur extra hardware costs within X2 itself so they can keep losses down and price more competitively, and wouldn't supplant other efforts along those lines from the PC realm because it requires customers to use what they already have.
I COULD see them making a more advanced model a la the PSX, but again that just competes directly with the Media Center PC endeavor. Now MS might be wanting to get into the hardware side a lot more now, but I don't think they're ready to piss off all their OEM's yet--since they're basically all custom-building expensive PC's to use MS's custom-made version of Windows that ONLY they can get for precisely that endeavor.
More likely I could see them working up a software solution to easily link an Xbox to a PC and offer the same kind of features through the network port. It would still be advanced features they could market, wouldn't incur extra hardware costs within X2 itself so they can keep losses down and price more competitively, and wouldn't supplant other efforts along those lines from the PC realm because it requires customers to use what they already have.
I COULD see them making a more advanced model a la the PSX, but again that just competes directly with the Media Center PC endeavor. Now MS might be wanting to get into the hardware side a lot more now, but I don't think they're ready to piss off all their OEM's yet--since they're basically all custom-building expensive PC's to use MS's custom-made version of Windows that ONLY they can get for precisely that endeavor.
MrSingh said:
Yeah, it will have a crystal in which data can be stored on a quantum level thanks to a laser beam. Being a quantum computer, it will have unlimited resources, and we will only need that to do any computational task, be it gaming, word processing, movie production, goverment defence systems, forever and ever.
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they need to make it smaller than what the current xbox is One of ther reasons i like GC is it's compact size
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Interesting article at GamesIndustry.biz at the moment:
A job advertisement which has appeared on Microsoft's careers website suggests that the company may be considering moving to a proprietary disc format for its next console, in an effort to make piracy on the device more difficult.
According to the ad, Microsoft's Xbox team is seeking an engineer "to manage the design and development of the Xbox Game Disc for the next generation Xbox console," with the job description going on to mention anti-piracy as the first in a list of key factors for the new game disc specification.
Although it's possible that the role will simply involve devising a copy protection mechanism for games on existing DVD media, similar to that used by the current generation Xbox and the PS2, the description of the role hints strongly at the company developing a more proprietary format.
Microsoft may be planning to follow in the footsteps of Nintendo, whose mini-DVD format which has been highly successful in preventing piracy on the GameCube. It's widely expected, however, that whatever media the next Xbox console (codenamed Xenon, apparently) uses will be the same size as DVD media, since the system will be expected to play back DVD movies and provide backwards compatibility with Xbox games.
Although preventing piracy which results from the copying of game discs is obviously an important consideration, Microsoft will also be thinking very hard about how to prevent piracy which uses the hard drive on the system. Many mod chips for the current generation of Xbox allow users to copy games to their hard drives and then play them without the original game disc, or simply download copies off the Internet directly onto their console - a new avenue for piracy which has potential to be hugely damaging if it becomes popular.
A job advertisement which has appeared on Microsoft's careers website suggests that the company may be considering moving to a proprietary disc format for its next console, in an effort to make piracy on the device more difficult.
According to the ad, Microsoft's Xbox team is seeking an engineer "to manage the design and development of the Xbox Game Disc for the next generation Xbox console," with the job description going on to mention anti-piracy as the first in a list of key factors for the new game disc specification.
Although it's possible that the role will simply involve devising a copy protection mechanism for games on existing DVD media, similar to that used by the current generation Xbox and the PS2, the description of the role hints strongly at the company developing a more proprietary format.
Microsoft may be planning to follow in the footsteps of Nintendo, whose mini-DVD format which has been highly successful in preventing piracy on the GameCube. It's widely expected, however, that whatever media the next Xbox console (codenamed Xenon, apparently) uses will be the same size as DVD media, since the system will be expected to play back DVD movies and provide backwards compatibility with Xbox games.
Although preventing piracy which results from the copying of game discs is obviously an important consideration, Microsoft will also be thinking very hard about how to prevent piracy which uses the hard drive on the system. Many mod chips for the current generation of Xbox allow users to copy games to their hard drives and then play them without the original game disc, or simply download copies off the Internet directly onto their console - a new avenue for piracy which has potential to be hugely damaging if it becomes popular.
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